An Ocean in Mind poses a number of provocative questions about the
ways in which the human mind acquires, utilizes, and transmits
different forms of knowledge. Author Will Kyselka has woven an
exploration of this theme around the story of the Hokule'a, a
re-creation of a traditional Polynesian sailing vessel that
completed a successful roundtrip journey between Hawaii and Tahiti
in 1980. From this story emerges portraits of two men who played
integral roles in that voyage. Nainoa Thompson, a young man of
Hawaiian descent, kept the Hokule'a on its 6,000-mile course using
only the stars and the sea as his guides. He was inspired by
Carolinian navigator Mau Piailug, a gentle, softspoken man with
keen instincts and an unlimited understanding of the oceans and
heavens derived from his Oceanic cultural past. Thompson also
worked with Kyselka to generate a body of information concerning
movement of the stars using the Bishop Museum Planetarium as a
resource. How Thompson was eventually able to forge these vastly
different approaches to knowledge into a cogent wayfinding system
uniquely his own, and his rediscovery of an almost forgotten
cultural heritage in the process, makes for a thrilling adventure
story.
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